User can create their own tiles, for example, to keep tabs on the latest posts and pictures from friends or relatives on social networks.

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The posts or pictures could hurt your partner's feelings.

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Will our posts and pictures be location-tagged?

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What would really have an impact is a significant volume of tweets, Facebook messages, blog posts, Tumblr pictures, and more, from customers who have purchased the Surface Pro.

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This data springs from such diverse sources as weather, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records and cell phone GPS signals, to name a few.

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Create a tile of a friend, and the user gains a readable, up-to-date view of a friend's latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at Start.

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You likely have years' worth of romantic failure riddled throughout your Facebook profile -- old pictures, wall posts, comments, messages -- and it's not really a good look.

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But pictures are not blog posts with text that can be easily crawled by search engines.

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For posts about business, users will see their cover pages and pictures of friends who have "liked" the business, in the social network's parlance.

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He has almost 800, 000 followers on Twitter and more than 1.4 million fans on Facebook, where he posts jokes, show plugs and ... yes, pictures of food.

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